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Pushing the Dual Emancipation Thesis Beyond its Troublesome Origins

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Toward the end of her valuable reinterpretation of southern slave

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Occasionally a book comes along at a timely historical moment.

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. I must confess from the outset that I never had

In today’s post, Rebecca Brenner, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at American University, interviews Manisha Sinha on

Last year was incredibly difficult. There was something that seemed more painful than usual about the deluge of the twenty-four-hour